The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 31
‘Gladly,’ she said, and breaking her crust in two, she gave them the half.
Who acts: stepmother · What happens: say, break, give · To what, where: crust, two, half, dwarfs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stepmother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 6 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gladly | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gladly | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 breaking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 breaking | cc |
| 9 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 crust | nmod:poss |
| 11 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 breaking | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 two | case |
| 13 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 breaking | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 gave | iobj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 half | det |
| 19 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | stepmother | gladly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | break | gerund | stepmother not said here | stepmother's crust | two | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crust=Patient | |||
| 3 | give | past | stepmother | the half | dwarfs = dwarf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient half=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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